optify webinar-ssl-enhancement-impact-on-seo
DESCRIPTION
Is your organic keyword traffic falling into Google’s “not provided” black hole? – You are not alone. In order to keep your SEO a step ahead you need to understand Google’s updates and enhancements and how they affect your SEO campaigns. In this webcast, Barry Schwartz, Executive Editor of Search Engine Roundtable and Zack Okun, Director of Product Management at Optify explored the impact of Google’s SSL enhancement, which has led to the increased amount of “not provided” organic visit referral data. Using data trends from over 400 websites both speakers shared practical tips on how to manage the effect of the missing keyword information so your SEO campaigns stay moving in the right direction. Read this presentation and learn: - What is Google’s SSL enhancement? - What has changed? And how does the SSL enhancement affect you? - The rate of increase in “not provided” data over the past year - What is the best course of action after the enhancement to improve your SEO? Watch the full webinar here http://www.optify.net/?page_id=40586&preview=trueTRANSCRIPT
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Tuesday, February 5, 2013 1:00 EST (10:00 PST)
SPEAKERS: Barry Schwartz, Executive Editor, Search Engine
Roundtable, News Editor, Search Engine Land Zach Okun, Director of Product Management at Optify -
Inbound Marketing Software
Google’s SSL enhancement: How does it impact your SEO?
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Barry Schwartz, Executive Editor, Search Engine Roundtable, News Editor, Search Engine Land
Barry Schwartz is Search Engine Land's News Editor and has covered search news for over five years. Barry also maintains the “Search Engine Roundtable”, his own search blog that tracks discussions at the most active search engine forums. As the host of Search Marketing Expo Israel and a speaker at many search marketing conferences, Barry is always on top of the most important topics in search.
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Zach Okun, Director of Product, Optify
Zach is responsible for enforcing Optify's simple mantra - 'Simple, Insightful, and Actionable‘, and thinks that marketers deserve better tools to deal with rapidly changing technological landscape. Prior to Optify, Zach was a product manager at Amazon Web Services. Follow Zach on Twitter - @z_okun
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About Optify
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What we’ll cover today
• What is Google’s SSL enhancement? • What has changed? And how does the SSL enhancement
affect you? • The results of Optify’s study on the rate of increase in ‘not
provided’ data • What is the best course of action after the enhancement to
improve your SEO?
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What Is SSL Search?
• SSL Encrypts Your Browser Behavior • Protects The Searcher • Public Wifi Spots (Protects Sniffers) • Blocks (Most) Keyword Referrer Data
From Being Passed To Analytics & Logs
• Source (i.e. Google/Bing) Is Passed • May Slow The Speed Of Search
Results
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Google SSL Search Beta
• May 21, 2010 Google Introduces Opt In SSL Search At encrypted.google.com
• Launched As BETA • Searches Over Google SSL Do Not
Pass Referrer Data • Google Stores Searches In Web History
& For Own Use • Google AdWords Does Pass Keyword
Data To Advertiser
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Google SSL Search Default
• October 18, 2011 SSL Default For Logged In Google Users
• 10% Or Less Of Search Referrer Data Impacted
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Google SSL Search Expands Globally
• March 5, 2012 SSL Search Defaults Globally
• 10% Continues To Increase • [NOT PROVIDED] Scares Marketers
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Browsers Adopt SSL Search Defaults
• July 2012 Firefox 14 Defaults To SSL Search Via Google
• September 2012 Mobile Safari Defaults To SSL Search Via Google
• 2013 Chrome 25 Defaults To SSL Search Via Google
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Marketers Lose Keyword Data
• 30%+ Of Keyword Data Not Provided • … and growing • AdWords Gets Keyword Data • Web History Gets Keyword Data • Google Gets Keyword Data • Webmaster/Marketer Doesn’t Get
Keyword Data
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No Keyword Data Means:
• Marketers Can’t Learn How Searchers Are Reaching Them
• Marketers Can’t Personalize Their Landing Pages By Keyword Data
• Marketers Need To Different Sources For Keyword Research
• Marketers Can Be Reaching The Wrong Users (Negative Keywords)
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“not provided” rate is up 171% since its introduction. One of every 2.5 visits from organic search now show up as “not provided”.
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Organic Search is #1 driver of traffic to B2B Sites
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Source: Optify 2012 B2B Marketing Benchmark Report
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Google dominates the Organic Search market
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Recognized keywords from Organic Search drop by 48%
Almost 50% of the keywords previously tracked are no longer available through analytics systems due to SSL search.
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Recognized, non-branded keywords drop to 35%
Only 35% of organic search visits from Google will provide keyword data that can be correlated with SEO work and analyzed to improve SEO campaigns.
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Other key findings
• 64% of companies analyzed in the study see 30%-50% of their traffic from Google as “(not provided)”
• 81% of the companies analyzed in the study see over 30% of their traffic from Google as “(not provided)”
• Recognized referring keywords from organic search declined by 49%
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Who should care?
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Sophistication Level 1 – Do nothing
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Sophistication Level 2 – Diversify your programs
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Sophistication Level 3 – Make the most of the data you have
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Sophistication Level 4 – Use Google Webmaster Tools
• Use the data that Google provides for past 30 days: – Top 1,000 daily search
queries – Top 1,000 landing pages for
past 30 days – Cross reference with tool
like Optify to calculate relative lead conversion rates
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Sophistication Level 5 – Use PPC data
Not an ‘apples to apples’ comparison, but you can look at relative CTRs and conversion rates to estimate relative organic keyword performance
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Sophistication Level 6 – Use other data for personalization
Behavioral data
• Pages visited • # visits • Email responses • Form completions • Content downloaded
• Industry • Geography • Company • # Employees • Etc.
Firmographic data
Get rich intelligence on what happens after someone arrives from Organic Search
Use data such as forms submissions, pages viewed and incoming campaign tags to guide personalization of web pages and follow-up emails.
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Sophistication Level 7 – Use proxy data for SEO work
Sort organic leads by entry page
Pull keywords from Google Webmaster
tools that drove traffic to entry
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Use rank and known CTR for
each keyword to estimate traffic
driven by keyword
Estimate conversion rate by
keyword
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Key Takeaways
• Referring keyword data is going away • There are solutions for dealing with the lack of
data • The underlining issue is Google dominance • Make sure you don’t bank your entire marketing
on just Organic Search
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